Moshe Marlin Levin, one of the last surviving Jerusalem Post staffers who was working when the paper’s offices were blown up in February 1948, died over the weekend.

The 94-year-old Levin, a lifetime journalist who worked for the Post, the TIME LIFE company and ABC TV over a six-decade career, grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Three years into a journalism degree at Temple University in Philadelphia, he was drafted into the US Army and served on Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s staff at the advance communications headquarters in Versailles as a cryptographer. After the war, he completed his degree, married Betty Schoffman, and six weeks after their wedding in 1947, immigrated to Palestine.